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They Filmed The War In Colour DVD

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This unique DVD features two special feature-length documentary films using only rare colour footage shot during the Second World War. Using footage from public archives as well as private collections these fascinating films include some of the most iconic images shot during the war as well as rarely seen or previously unavailable film materials. They are accompanied by an expert narrative that reveals in many instances background information on how this truly extraordinary footage came to be filmed - and why. They Filmed The War In Colour offers a new and vivid perspective... on the Second World War. The Pacific War Much of the most spectacular and truly memorable colour footage of the Second World War was filmed in the Pacific Theatre. From John Ford's failed film recreation of Pearl Harbor to the surrender of Japan this gripping 90-minute film covers many of the pivotal moments of the Pacific War on land sea and in the air. Colour sequences include action from Midway Island and the Battle of Midway Tarawa Saipan the Mariana's 'Turkey Shoot' the Burma Road New Guinea Burma and Okinawa. France Is Free! This 90-minute documentary sweeps from extraordinary colour images of pre-war France through footage of the German Blitzkrieg of 1940 secretly filmed by Wehrmacht soldiers right up until the end of the war. Along the way colour film captures German marching bands and off duty soldiers in the streets of occupied Paris war in French Colonial Algeria coverage of D-Day and the Allied advance through France and the invasion of Southern France. Among the many highlights are amateur films of D-Day and dramatic footage of the liberation of Marseilles Paris and Lyon. [show more]

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Released
22 March 2010
Directors
Actors
Format
DVD 
Publisher
Simply Media 
Classification
Runtime
187 minutes 
Features
Colour, PAL 
Barcode
5019322326885 
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